Interlocking suture

Details Interlocking suture Interlocking suture

1975-11-20

1979-02-27

Truluck, Dalton L.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

A61B 1704

Patent

active

041413636

ABSTRACT:
A special type of suture tape for use in the medical field, and which holds a wound or laceration edges together for mending and healing; the device consisting of a pair of interlocking suture tapes, each of which has one end applied to the skin on each opposite side of the wound, the opposite ends of the tapes then being pulled in opposite directions so to draw the wound edges together so to close the wound, after which the other ends of the crossing tapes are pressed down against the skin, thus keeping the wound closed.

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patent: 3402716 (1969-09-01), Baxter

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